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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Citrix présente ses résultats pour le troisième trimestre

Press release from Citrix:


Oct
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Citrix présente ses résultats pour le troisième trimestre

Un chiffre d’affaires trimestriel de 641 millions de dollars, en hausse de 13 % par rapport à l’exercice précédent. Un bénéfice net par action de 0,41 dollar au troisième trimestr. Un bénéfice ajusté par action de 0,68 dollar sur ce même trimestre. Des produits constatés d’avance de 1,05 milliard de dollars, en hausse de 26 % par rapport à la même période de l’exercice précédent

Paris, La Défense - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) a présenté aujourd’hui ses résultats financiers pour le troisième trimestre de l’exercice fiscal 2012, clôturé le 30 septembre 2012.

RÉSULTATS FINANCIERS

Au troisième trimestre 2012, Citrix a enregistré un chiffre d'affaires de 641 millions de dollars contre 565 millions de dollars enregistrés sur la même période de l'exercice précédent, soit une augmentation de 13 %.
Résultats conformes aux principes PCGR
Le bénéfice net s'élève à 78 millions de dollars au troisième trimestre 2012, soit 0,41 dollar par action (après dilution), contre 92 millions de dollars, soit 0,49 dollar par action (après dilution), enregistrés sur la même période de l'exercice précédent.

Résultats ajustés

Pour le troisième trimestre de l'exercice 2012, le bénéfice net s’élève à 128 millions de dollars, soit 0,68 dollar par action après dilution, contre 121 millions de dollars, ou 0,64 dollar par action après dilution au troisième trimestre 2011. Ces chiffres excluent les effets de l’amortissement des immobilisations incorporelles, de la rémunération boursière et de la fiscalité liée à ces différents éléments.
« Nous nous sommes bien comportés au troisième trimestre, malgré des facteurs macro-économiques défavorables qui ont accentué  les incertitudes autour des dépenses informatiques, » a déclaré Mark Templeton, président et CEO de Citrix. « Nous continuons à percevoir l’avènement d’un bouleversement radical de l’informatique. Citrix demeure en parfaite position, les entreprises accordant la priorité de leurs investissements à la mise en place d’un environnement articulé autour du travail mobile et des services cloud. »

Événements financiers du troisième trimestre

Présentation des résultats du troisième trimestre 2012, comparés à ceux du troisième trimestre 2011 :
  • les produits dégagés de la vente de solutions et de licences ont augmenté de
    1 % ;
  • les produits associés à l'activité SaaS ont augmenté de 18 % ;
  • les produits associés aux mises à jour de licences et à la maintenance ont augmenté de 19 % ;
  • les produits dégagés des services professionnels (conseil, formation aux produits et certification) ont augmenté de 34 % ;
  • le chiffre d’affaires a augmenté de 20 % dans la région EMEA, de 17 % dans la région Pacifique et de 7 % dans la région Amériques ;
  • les produits constatés d'avance se sont élevés à 1,05 milliard de dollars, contre 834 millions de dollars pour la même période de l’exercice précédent ;
  • le flux de trésorerie lié à l'exploitation s'est élevé à 181 millions de dollars, contre 188 millions de dollars au troisième trimestre 2011 ;
  • ce trimestre, la marge nette a été de 13 % et la marge ajustée de 24 %, si l'on exclut les effets de l’amortissement des immobilisations incorporelles acquises et les effets de la rémunération boursière.
  • l’entreprise a racheté 1,0 million d’actions au prix moyen de 76,28 dollars par action.

Perspectives financières pour le quatrième trimestre 2012

La direction de Citrix propose les indicateurs suivants pour le quatrième trimestre 2012, arrêté au 31 décembre 2012 :
  • Le chiffre d'affaires net devrait être compris entre 700,0 et 710,0 millions de dollars.
  • Les bénéfices par action après dilution (PCGR) devraient être compris entre 0,55 et 0,57 dollar. Le bénéfice ajusté par action après dilution devrait être compris entre 0,83 et 0,85 dollar, si l'on exclut 0,17 dollar correspondant aux effets de l'amortissement des immobilisations incorporelles acquises, 0,22 dollar correspondant aux effets de la rémunération boursière, et de – 0,13 à – 0,09 dollar correspondant à l'incidence fiscale de ces éléments.
Les déclarations qui précèdent reposent sur les objectifs actuels. Il s'agit donc de déclarations prévisionnelles, et les résultats effectifs peuvent différer sensiblement de ceux escomptés.

Perspectives financières pour l'exercice 2012

La direction de Citrix propose les indicateurs suivants pour son exercice 2012, s’achevant au 31 décembre 2012 :
  • Le chiffre d’affaires net devrait être compris entre 2,55 et 2,56 milliards de dollars.
  • Les bénéfices par action après dilution (PCGR) devraient être compris entre 1,81 et 1,83 dollar. Le bénéfice ajusté par action après dilution devrait être compris entre 2,80 et 2,82 dollars, si l'on exclut 0,61 dollar correspondant aux effets de l'amortissement des immobilisations incorporelles acquises, 0,79 dollar correspondant aux effets de la rémunération boursière, et de – 0,43 à – 0,39 dollar correspondant à l'incidence fiscale de ces éléments.
Les déclarations qui précèdent reposent sur les objectifs actuels. Il s'agit donc de déclarations prévisionnelles, et les résultats effectifs peuvent différer sensiblement de ceux escomptés.

Perspectives financières pour l'exercice 2013

A ce jour, Citrix entrevoit pour l’exercice 2013 un chiffre d’affaires net en croissance d’environ 14%. La direction de Citrix prévoit également une augmentation de 50 points de base des bénéfices d’exploitation ajustés par rapport à 2012. Ces chiffres excluent les effets de l’amortissement des immobilisations incorporelles acquises et de la rémunération boursière.
Ces déclarations reposent sur les objectifs actuels, et les résultats effectifs peuvent différer sensiblement de ceux escomptés.

The Official Rackspace Blog - Open Compute: Collaborating For Hardware Innovation

The Official Rackspace Blog - Open Compute: Collaborating For Hardware Innovation

Lockheed Martin, Microsoft to Take EPA to the Cloud

Press release from Microsoft:


Lockheed Martin, Microsoft to Take EPA to the Cloud
Oct. 31, 2012
Microsoft Office 365 to improve EPA’s access to communications and mobility tools.
REDMOND, Wash., and ROCKVILLE, Md. — Oct. 31, 2012 — Lockheed Martin and Microsoft Corp. received a $9.8 million contract to migrate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-based collaboration and communication service. This transition will improve EPA employees’ access to communications and mobility tools and will offer the EPA significant cost savings by reducing the agency’s energy footprint. The new system is expected to save the agency approximately $12 million over the four-year contract period.
“EPA and Lockheed Martin have a long and productive relationship. I am excited to have them assist us in transforming the way our employees work and collaborate with one another,” said Malcolm Jackson, assistant administrator for the Environmental Information and chief information officer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Under the terms of the contract, approximately 25,000 EPA employees will be transitioned to Office 365 for Government, a new multitenant service that stores U.S. government data in a segregated community cloud and includes email, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools for internal and external use. Lockheed Martin will manage the migration and provide engineering and ongoing integration services. The primary email migration will be completed in early 2013.
“Lockheed Martin has supported the IT needs of the EPA for more than 35 years,” said Frank Armijo, vice president of Lockheed Martin Energy Solutions. “By providing cloud-based tools that facilitate collaboration, communication and cost savings across the agency, our team is dedicated to the EPA’s mission.”
Lockheed Martin has several cloud services such as the proven Solutions as a Service (SolaSTM) secure cloud delivery innovation, which combines domain expertise, proven processes and smart technology. The corporation began its investment in cloud solution development in early 2008, with its first cloud implementation in early 2009. Since then, Lockheed Martin has been on the front lines of the cloud evolution, developing innovation centers, flexible cloud computing solutions and alliances with partners to provide the most comprehensive solutions to customers.
“The EPA will continue to lead the pack on environmental stewardship, and moving an IT environment to the cloud is a natural part of that,” said Greg Myers, vice president of Microsoft Federal. “There is tremendous potential in the cloud, not only for transforming the way government employees work, but also for helping agencies meet their environmental and energy efficiency goals. Microsoft cloud services are backed by the latest innovations in datacenter design and energy efficiency, providing agencies with a unique opportunity to help reduce their energy consumption, generate cost savings, and reduce the environmental impact of their overall technology footprint.”
Microsoft delivers a variety of technologies that meet the unique needs of government agencies and their missions. These include private, public and government community cloud offerings, as well as on premises solutions and hybrid architectures. The EPA joins a growing list of government agencies that have chosen to embrace cloud computing with Microsoft, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the state of California, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which stands as the single largest U.S. government cloud deployment to date.
Lockheed Martin Energy Solutions provides comprehensive services to utility and commercial customers. The corporation has eight federal, state and local agencies, and is part of the top 10 largest utilities corporation’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil business. IS&GS-Civil is responsible for a wide array of IT systems and technical services in the United States to run areas such as energy efficiency programs and provide smart grid, healthcare, transportation, information and cybersecurity solutions, citizen protection and space exploration.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation’s net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.
For additional information, visit their website http://www.lockheedmartin.com.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

The Official Rackspace Blog - SharePoint Tuesday Recap: Episode 11

The Official Rackspace Blog - SharePoint Tuesday Recap: Episode 11

The Official Rackspace Blog - The Journey To The Open Cloud Through The Eyes Of One Very Proud Dad

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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Official Rackspace Blog - Soasta: Powerful Testing Accessible to Anyone

The Official Rackspace Blog - Soasta: Powerful Testing Accessible to Anyone

The Official Rackspace Blog - Preparing Our Data Centers For Hurricane Sandy

The Official Rackspace Blog - Preparing Our Data Centers For Hurricane Sandy

The Official Rackspace Blog - E-Commerce Tip: Optimization Through Configuration

The Official Rackspace Blog - E-Commerce Tip: Optimization Through Configuration

Introducing Windows Phone 8 - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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Chico State Gains Data Center Efficiencies, Trains Students on Today’s Business Tools by Building on a NetApp Storage Foundation

Press release from NetApp:


Chico State Gains Data Center Efficiencies, Trains Students on Today’s Business Tools by Building on a NetApp Storage Foundation

CSU, Chico Grows Its Peer-Hosting Capability, Realizes Efficiencies, and Better Prepares Students Thanks to a Donation from NetApp
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 29, 2012 –When California State University, Chico, began running out of hosting capacity in their systems running SAP software for the SAP University Alliance program, a consortium of universities worldwide that use SAP applications to support classroom instruction, it was time to seek out a new architecture. Chico State needed to provide better access to more products to more schools so that a larger number of students could receive the training in business processes and enterprise systems technology they needed to prepare them for today’s competitive job market.
With a donation from NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) worth more than $950,000, Chico State was able to build its hosting center on a cloud-based storage infrastructure that provided far greater capacity and a much-reduced energy footprint. As a result, the school has been able to reduce energy costs and space requirements while offering more students the opportunity to work with the market and technology leader in business management software.
Under the SAP University Alliance, Chico State and four other peer-hosting centers around the globe are able to teach their students accounting and business concepts using state-of-the-art, real-world technology in the classroom while providing the same experience for the students at other University Alliance member universities.
A member of the SAP University Alliance since 1996, Chico State began sharing its SAP expertise in 2000 by hosting other colleges. As the demand for hosting services grew, adding incrementally to a jumble of standalone servers and storage subsystems became increasingly unmanageable and was beginning to limit the program’s reach. This required Chico to refresh its data center infrastructure to include a cloud storage foundation to increase overall data center efficiencies and securely store information from a growing number of schools on a single architecture. To address this challenge, the school partnered with NetApp to build a storage solution that would house the vital SAP software and serve as the backbone for its hosting center operation.
With NetApp’s help, Chico State implemented a FlexPod® architecture that enables multiple SAP products addressing different academic needs to be rolled out quickly to meet each school’s specific requirements. Developed as a cloud infrastructure with NetApp as the storage foundation, Chico State has become a service provider for more than 140 schools in North and South America that are providing an SAP-enhanced education to 100,000 students per year. Leveraging the VCS NetApp® plug-in to the VMware control panel, Chico State can now provision SAP clients for each university customer with ease while providing enhanced system performance and integrity.
Supporting Quotes
  • Jim Sager, chair, Department of Business Information Systems, California State University, Chico:
    “As one of the most well-known and respected learning institutions in the California State University system, Chico State has to ensure that its IT infrastructure is up to date to maintain the level of service we provide to our own students, faculty, and staff and those of the universities we serve. The SAP University Alliance Program provides a great opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with the same software used in today’s enterprise, better preparing them to enter the technology workforce. NetApp’s donation helps us reach more students as the number of those enrolled in the program continues to grow.”
  • Regina Kunkle, vice president, State and Local Government and Higher Education, NetApp:
    “Attracting more students into programs that will give them real experience for the competitive job market is one of NetApp’s key goals. Better preparing students for real-world business applications is a great outcome for the school and for the community. Our technology allows Chico State to cut costs, reduce energy use, and provide a great benefit to its students.”
Additional Details
  • Since installing the new system, the university has downsized computing hardware space by 80%, and the maximum power draw of the system means that there will be at least 60% power reduction and 70% less heat dissipation compared to the previous infrastructure.
  • With the new system in place, new university clients can be added quickly and seamlessly, giving faster turnaround so that more students have access to training on software that is so vital in today’s business world.
  • Deduplication is also critically important, because storage demands are growing rapidly.
Additional Resources
About NetApp 
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

Ingram Micro Ready to Deliver Windows 8 Solutions to Channel Partners in North America


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Ingram Micro Ready to Deliver Windows 8 Solutions to Channel Partners in North America
Committed to Doing Business Differently, Leading Technology Distributor Makes It Easier for IT Channel Partners to Sell Windows 8 OS Solutions

Oct 29, 2012 (Marketwire via COMTEX) --  Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSEIM) today announced it is bringing together the technology front-runners in systems, software and mobile solutions to deliver Windows 8 OS and Windows Server solutions and support to the company's IT channel partners.

Recognized as the world's top technology distributor, Ingram Micro offers the industry's most comprehensive solutions portfolio designed to work with Windows 8. Readily available to qualified channel partners throughout North America, the new Windows 8 solutions include a wide variety of tablets and touch screen products, as well as notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers from the industry's top IT manufacturers and software suppliers.

In support of the highly anticipated launch, Ingram Micro has trained more than 400 of its sales reps and technicians across six divisions on the new Windows 8 OS and Windows Server. Additionally, Ingram Micro is training its channel partners on the new Windows technologies and the business advantages Win 8 and Windows Server will provide to their small-to-medium sized and enterprise customers.

"The Windows 8 and Windows Server refresh present a great opportunity for our channel partners to engage their existing customers and prospects about new technologies and business drivers," says Jodi Honore, executive director, Consumer and Direct Markets, Ingram Micro U.S. "Together with Microsoft we are bringing to market the technologies, business resources and enablement tools to make it easier for channel partners to maximize the sales opportunity around Windows 8 and Windows Server."

Ingram Micro Offers Channel Partners Targeted Win 8 Marketing, Sales and Technical Support 

To fuel demand and ignite the sales cycle, Ingram Micro is also providing demonstration units running on the Win 8 OS for channel partners, and has collaborated with Microsoft and a number of its hardware manufacturers to develop and deploy a real-world Windows 8 environment within each of its Solution Centers located in Buffalo, N.Y. and Santa Ana, Calif. Channel partners can leverage the Solution Centers to conduct Win 8 and Windows Servers business and technology trainings for their customers, as well as associates.

Simultaneously, the Ingram Micro Marketing Services Agency is launching a cohesive Windows 8 go-to-market plan that touches each division and business unit within the distributor's North American organization and offers customizable, multi-vendor marketing materials, as well as end-user lead generation to channel partners. In November, the distributor will kick off its multi-vendor Windows "Experience Tour" throughout North America. The tour will focus on educating channel partners on how to best market, sell and support touch screen solutions.

For more information about Ingram Micro's Windows 8 solutions portfolio and business enablement resources, channel partners should contact their Ingram Micro sales or marketing representative.

More information about Ingram Micro is available at www.ingrammicro.com.
To learn, see and hear more about Ingram Micro online, follow the distributor on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/IngramMicro; Twitter at www.twitter.com/IngramMicroInc; and YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/user/ingrammicroinc.

About Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro is the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough

The following is an excerpt from an article in:


The New York Times
Monday, October 29, 2012

I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough

By JOHN MARKOFF

I.B.M. scientists are reporting progress in a chip making technology that is likely to ensure the shrinking of the size of the basic digital switch at the heart of modern microchips for more than another decade.

The advance, first described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on Sunday, is based on carbon nanotubes, exotic molecules that have long held out promise as an alternative material to silicon from which to create the tiny logic gates that are now used by the billions to create microprocessors and memory chips. The I.B.M. researchers at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have been able to pattern an array of carbon nanotubes on the surface of a silicon wafer and use them to build chips that are hybrids of silicon and carbon nanotubes with more than 10,000 working transistors.

Against all expectations, the silicon chip has continued to improve in both speed and capacity for the last five decades. In recent decades, however, there has been growing uncertainty over whether the technology will continue to improve. The end of the microelectronics era would inevitably stall a growing array of industries that have fed off the falling cost and increasing performance of computer chips.

For more, visit www.nytimes.com.

A Word from Adobe



Adobe Creative Suite 6 Creative Cloud

Thursday, October 25, 2012

EPP: Enrollment, Overview, and Fund Management | VMware Support Insider - VMware Blogs

EPP: Enrollment, Overview, and Fund Management | VMware Support Insider - VMware Blogs

ROBLOX: RabbitMQ, Hybrid Clouds, and 1 Billion Page Views/Month | VMware vFabric Blog - VMware Blogs

ROBLOX: RabbitMQ, Hybrid Clouds, and 1 Billion Page Views/Month | VMware vFabric Blog - VMware Blogs

Citrix Systems - Citrix présente ses résultats pour le troisième trimestre

Citrix Systems - Citrix présente ses résultats pour le troisième trimestre

It’s Here…Windows 8! - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

It’s Here…Windows 8! - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Adobe CEO on New Digital Campaign


Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems, talks about his company's new digital campaign.

Video from CNBC (5:24).


Adobe CEO on New Digital Campaign

Another Warning Signal at Best Buy


R.J. Hottovy, Morningstar analyst, discusses the latest management changes at Best Buy, and weighs in on the company's warning on earnings.

Video from CNBC (4:07).


Another Warning Signal at Best Buy

Is Windows 8 the PC's Best Chance to Stay Relevant? - U.S. Business News - CNBC

Is Windows 8 the PC's Best Chance to Stay Relevant? - U.S. Business News - CNBC

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Facebook's Pleasant Surprise

Victor Anthony, Senior Analyst, Topeka Capital Markets says that Facebook's advertising revenue growth rate showed a meaningful improvement, helping its stock do well.

Video from CNBC (5:50).

Facebook&#39;s Pleasant Surprise

Is the iPad Mini a winner?

Phil Harpur, Senior Research Manager, ANZ (ICT Practice) at Frost & Sullivan says that customers are willing to pay premium dollar for the iPad mini.

Video from CNBC (6:58).

Is the iPad Mini a winner?

Faber Report: Sprint Gains Control of Clearwire

CNBC's David Faber reports the latest detail on Sprint's takeover of Clearwire; and weighs in on Verizon's earnings.
Video from CNBC (3:13).

Faber Report: Sprint Gains Control of Clearwire